People attend the annual book festival on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on June 3, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)
A total of 1,073 Americans have been under Moscow's sanctions.
MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- An additional 25 U.S. citizens have been indefinitely barred from entering the country in response to Washington's growing anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
The newly blacklisted are members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking officials, business people, experts and cultural figures, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Moscow will resolutely respond to hostile actions of the American authorities, which continue a Russophobic course, destroy bilateral ties and escalate confrontation between the two countries, the ministry said in a statement.
A total of 1,073 Americans have been under Moscow's sanctions, including an entry ban, official data show. ■
